Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Whats the best way to render a character as if she is in black and white

CStrauss opened this issue on Aug 31, 2005 ยท 20 posts


elizabyte posted Thu, 01 September 2005 at 2:45 AM

You said, "leave her eyes and lips in color". This is pretty easy to do in Photoshop. Bring the render into Photoshop. Do whatever postwork you want to fix joints, correct stuff, etc. etc. Duplicate the corrected image on a new layer. Duplicate it again. Make the top layer invisible for the time being. Select the lower duplicate layer. Go to Image: Adjustments: Channel Mixer. Put a tick in the box that says "Monochrome". Tweak the channels until it looks the way you like. Go back to the second dupliated channel and make it visible. Go to Layer: Layer Mask: Hide All. The color image will disappear with the mask. Make sure the mask is selected on the layer and select a brush that suits you (I would use a medium-hard brush at 100% opacity for this, size depending on what area I'm working on). Paint the mask (white to show the color, black to hide it) until only the lips and eyes have color. You can adjust the opacity if you like to play down the color somewhat, as well. Select All, go to the bottom layer and make it active. Edit: Copy Merged. Then go to the top layer and select it, and paste the merged layers you just copied (Edit: Paste or CTRL-V). Duplicate that layer (just in case you want to go back). On the duplicate layer, you can add noise of various sorts or use the Artistic: Film Grain filter to add a soft, grainy quality. bonni

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